You certainly are familiar with or have at least heard of location based applications used to precisely locate assets, machines, individuals in or out of buildings. Among all these applications, the ones that stand out and frankly really add value, are the ones that don’t just do observation of things location. They are the ones that allow automation and integration into workflows. Location does matter, and we will discuss why with Paul on this new episode of the IoT Show. Paul comes from the world of Air Traffic Control and is an entrepreneur passionate about using IoT and location based services for innovations in healthcare. He even came up with the concept of Care Traffic Control! Don’t forget to subscribe to stay up to date on all things IoT and give us a little like if you appreciate the conversation and leave a comment to share your perspective Learn more at https://whywherematters.com

Time for an update on Particle. Zach Supalla, Founder and CEO, shares some backstories and gives us an update on where things are at Particle, how they decided to bundle multiple radios in a single System on Module, or why they made their development boards production-ready. Learn more about Particle at https://particle.io

If you are using the MQTT protocol to connect your IoT devices to the Cloud or to communicate with one another, you will want to check out the Azure Event Grid MQTT Broker. Seth is a Program Manager in the Event Grid team and will tell us all we need to know, as IoT practitioners, about this new feature of Event Grid. Yes, there are existing open source brokers you can deploy yourself in a VM in the Cloud, but you might be surprised how much more you can get by opting for an MQTT Broker as a service such as the one the Event Grid team offers.

Cellular connectivity is really practical for connecting your IoT devices, especially when you're out in the wild, away from other connectivity coverage, or roaming around, right? But it's never really easy to configure it exactly the way you want and need, unless you deploy your own private cellular infrastructure. Here comes a Network-as-a-Service solution called Stacuity. Mike is here on the IoT Show to tell us everything about it and how you, IoT developers, can make the most of cellular connectivity for your IoT devices. Learn more about Stacuity at https://stacuity.com Get your Stacuity SIM: https://store.stacuity.com and get started today https://readme.stacuity.com/docs/getting-started-1

Did you know that a motorized medical wheelchair costs $20K and up, and that maintaining it is not just expensive, but a real challenge? The Mobility Independence Foundation (https://www.themif.org) seeks to create open source hardware and software designs to address the many problems that Durable Medical Equipment users are facing. This kind of equipment, such as wheelchairs are not that durable, and users who are dependent on them have to deal with expensive, complex and long repairs, inexistant or hard to get replacement parts and inability to fix the equipment themselves not to void warrantees and loose insurance funding. Thomas and Jeff are active members of the MIF and are fostering a vibrant community you might be able to contribute to. What are the features IoT makers and tinkerers can come up with that’d be useful for motorized wheelchair users and that they could easily implement on their own or at an low cost thanks to open source? Let’s discuss this with Thomas and Jeff on the IoT Show.

I'm often asked how to get started with IoT, and my answer usually is "it depends", but at the end of the day, it's always about getting your hands dirty and start tinkering with hardware and dev tools. Asim Zulfiqar is an electronics Engineer by trade and a curious mind by nature. He started his journey in IoT tinkering with embedded software and rapidly ramped up thanks to hardware like the ESP32 and dev tools like the Arduino IDE. Asim being a tech blogger and vlogger, he had to share his experience and ended up authoring a book about his learning experience. Grab Asim's book at https://packt.link/Z52uy Follow Asim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asimzulfiqar

Do you know what the do's and don'ts are when doing open source? I invited Enri, a very vocal advocate for open source in the industry. Enri just published an entire manifesto describing what the best practices are which we discuss in this episode. We'll also look at how these best practices apply to IoT and how open source can help do IoT right. You can find Enri's manifesto here: https://lnkd.in/gQKaj_yT

Have you heard of Walter, the open source, ESP32-S3 based, cellular, GPS and WiFi/BLE module for IoT devices? Let’s talk WAN (Wide Area Network) connectivity for IoT. It’s a large pond with many different actors and options. When you want to connect your devices wirelessly you will need to look at your requirements closely to define the right compromise for your scenario in terms of energy consumption, range, resilience to interference, and more. Cellular is gaining in popularity thanks to NB-IoT and LTE-M making it possible to leverage existing, secure infrastructure already deployed worldwide by operators, but adding cellular connectivity to an embedded design can be tedious and long, unless there was a module offering an almost plug and play solution… Introducing Walter! Daan Pape, co-founder of DP Technics joins me on this new episode of the IoT Show to tell us all you need to know about their new connectivity module. Learn more at https://www.dptechnics.com/en/products/walter.html Back the project and grab your Walter module on Crowd Supply today: https://www.crowdsupply.com/dptechnics/walter